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James Joyce reading from "Finnegans Wake"

Infinite Jest

Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace. Orwell. One Ring Zero with Margaret Atwood in Toronto. Philip Roth on Fame, Sex and God - Rita Braver - CBS Sunday Morning. By RITA BRAVER - CBS SUNDAY MORNING Added: Sunday, 03 October 2010 at 9:45 PM Philip Roth, a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature was interviewed on CBS Sunday morning. About 3/4 the way through the interview he stops the interviewer in her tracks, wonderfully, when he responds to her question about how is he not concerned about how people view his atheism with, "When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place. "

Speculative

Lewis Carroll. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Chapter 1. Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture. Nobel Lecture December 7, 1993 Listen to an Audio Recording of Toni Morrison's Nobel Lecture* 33 min.

Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture

"Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise. " Or was it an old man? New fiction: The stuff of life.